Health Promotion

These web pages provide information and links, an opportunity for communication and sharing and tools to support good practice in health promotion.

The  provides strategies, ideas and a variety of tools to assist people to work more effectively within a Primary Health Care model. It is a valuable resource for people who work with remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. You can find to assist with good practice in health promotion as well as resources and .

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Health promotion strategy

The work undertaken as part of the Evidence in Policy and Practice (EiPP) project and summary of work to January 2006 can be read in the EiPP updated.

That summary resulted in:

• the development of a Structure for Health Promotion in the NT (staff only document) that shows the links between the different program areas and the support required from our team, and
• the strategic direction for Health Promotion Strategy Unit for the next five years

The power point presentation shown at department orientation (Health Promotion Working Partnership) provides an introduction to the principles of health promotion, the spectrum of health promotion interventions and our role in health promotion strategy- supporting staff to do their work.

Download: Health Promotion Working Partnership (208KB)

The Health Promotion Strategy Unit works with Program Areas within the Department to promote strategic thinking and improve policy-making across the department.

We achieve this by:

• collaborating with program areas on specific challenges and health issues, such as smoking cessation
• coordinating opportunities to enable people working in health promotion to discuss common challenges and best practice

Strategic direction

The Health Promotion Strategy Unit in the NT is currently looking at four main tasks:

1. Develop systems for
2. Workforce development strategy:
   Health Promotion is everyone's business - resulting in the need for staff at all levels to have knowledge and skills to work in a health promoting way
3. Communication strategies:
   - Health Promotion Strategy Unit Web pages
   - Regular Health Promotion Strategy Unit update via email to key contacts
   - Newsletter 
4. Support an evidence based approach to Health Promotion across the organisation
   The 'NT Spectrum Health Promotion Interventions' approach will be adopted for each health issue in conjunction with existing summaries of evidence based practice, such as Beyond the Pamphlet.

Download:  
 image: "Adbove PDF Document" NT Spectrum Health Promotion Interventions
 image: "Adbove PDF Document" Beyond the Pamphlet

DHF frameworks

 outlines the need to support all Territorians to take responsibility for their own health through adopting a healthy lifestyle and having regular health checks.

 identifies that "community participation �can have a positive impact on a wider range of health outcomes including the community's capacity to identify and address their own health and wellbeing concerns.